Executive summary: The post outlines how EA Finland set up a career advising system for their members using volunteer advisors. It provides insights into their motivation, process, training, and lessons learned.
Key points:
Career advising can complement services from larger EA groups by providing tailored local knowledge, connections, availability, and language.
They developed a volunteer-based system with multiple advisors to increase flexibility, sustainability, and match different needs.
Advisors received training on career advising approaches and active practice sessions with volunteers roleplaying as advisees.
Maintaining open communication and continued skill development for advisors helps the system run smoothly.
Advising is based on trusting advisees’ knowledge of their situations and helping reduce key uncertainties in career choices.
It can be very rewarding to provide individualized support to those exploring high-impact careers.
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A pretty good summary, but to clarify point 3: we had “external” volunteers (who are not deeply involved with EA) taking the role of practice advisees, a method I find more realistic than the volunter advisors in training roleplaying as advisees themselves.
Executive summary: The post outlines how EA Finland set up a career advising system for their members using volunteer advisors. It provides insights into their motivation, process, training, and lessons learned.
Key points:
Career advising can complement services from larger EA groups by providing tailored local knowledge, connections, availability, and language.
They developed a volunteer-based system with multiple advisors to increase flexibility, sustainability, and match different needs.
Advisors received training on career advising approaches and active practice sessions with volunteers roleplaying as advisees.
Maintaining open communication and continued skill development for advisors helps the system run smoothly.
Advising is based on trusting advisees’ knowledge of their situations and helping reduce key uncertainties in career choices.
It can be very rewarding to provide individualized support to those exploring high-impact careers.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.
A pretty good summary, but to clarify point 3: we had “external” volunteers (who are not deeply involved with EA) taking the role of practice advisees, a method I find more realistic than the volunter advisors in training roleplaying as advisees themselves.